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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland: Police investigate the deaths of | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
four elderly people at a private care home in Edinburgh. The son of | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
one resident says he's concerned. You expect somebody to look after | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
your relative. I have the responsibility to my mother, I put | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
into that care home and I have been let down. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Also in the programme. The privatisation of Royal Mail - Alex | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Salmond says he'll renationalise it, if Scotland becomes independent. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Andy Murray's Wimbledon-winning season ends in injury - he's to have | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
surgery for a back problem. It was once the magazine of choice | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
for teenage girls. Now the Jackie is back as a musical. | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
And after defeat at the San Siro, what chance now for Celtic in the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Champions League? Police in Edinburgh are | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
investigating four deaths at a care home in the capital. Inquiries began | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
after the death of a 67-year-old woman at Bupa's Pentland Hill | :01:19. | :01:30. | |
nursing home in July. Our reporter is there for us this evening. It was | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
in July when we first became aware of the problems. Police were called | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
to investigate the death of a resident, but the care inspected it | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
at the same time issued the home with an ultimatum. It had to make | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
urgent improvements or face sanctions. I spoke to be applied | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
today who run the home and they say they have taken on extra staff and | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
they are working hard to achieving those changes. -- to Bupa. I spoke | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
to one man who thinks things are getting burst -- worse rather than | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
better. This woman has been bedridden since the start of the | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
summer. She developed her bed sore and was admitting to the family that | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
they had not looked after her properly. The home said things would | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
change. They have not addressed the problem. Last weekend she was rushed | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
to hospital, dehydrated and with an infection. An old lady, who is | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
dehydrated and feel. She is now on a drip she was owed dehydrated. -- and | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
surreal. They are having to use the drip really slowly because she's so | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
dehydrated and they cannot overlaid -- overload her body. The watchdog | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
says it has received four complaints since the summer about the home. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
Lisa arrived yesterday and say they are now investigating four deaths. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
The company says they regularly report cases to the authorities. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
They gave a statement regarding the situation of Mrs Hunter. They say | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
she refused all food and drink. They say that is when a cauldron and | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
villains. This has prompted wider concerns about private care homes | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
and how they are run. It is essential that large care providers | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
make sure that is proper management and leadership, they have two invest | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
in staff development and training. This man feels let down. You expect | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
someone to look after your relative. I have a responsibility, I | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
put my mother into that care home and they have let us down. You will | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
be glad to hear that Mrs Hunter's health is improving in hospital. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Meanwhile, the Kia Romsey they are working to make the changes. If they | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
are not able to turn the home around, they could be facing | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
sanctions. # Andy Murray is very unlikely to play again this season, | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
after deciding to undergo minor back surgery. It's an attempt by the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Wimbledon champion to clear up a long-standing problem. Our reporter | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
is in Glasgow newsroom. What more do we know? This is a long-standing | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
problem. Andy Murray suffers from a disc problem in his lower back, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
which seems to affect a nerve which can send pain shooting down his hip | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
and upper leg. He has been playing with it for nearly two years. He had | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
painkilling injections before last season's French Open and withdrew | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
from the Rome Masters. There were signs of discomfort at the US open, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
but he only finally took the decision to have surgery after last | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
weekend's Davis cup tie in Croatia. This means he is unlikely to play | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
again this season. He was scheduled to play three events in Asia, | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
including the Shanghai Masters, before digging in the Paris Masters | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
and the world tour finals at the O2 arena. There is no suggestion that | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
next year's schedule will be affected. He's hoping to kick off | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
his regular pre-season training block in Miami in the middle of | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
November. The First Minister, Alex Salmond, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
has promised to reverse the privatisation of the Royal Mail in | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Scotland if the country becomes independent. But it's accuse him of | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
making up uncosted policy on the hoof. The Scottish Government insist | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
the announcement was planned. Online shopping means parcel delivery is | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
busier than ever. UK ministers say investment is best done by selling | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
off the majority of the business. Critics fear services could be | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
curbed in the future. The First Minister says, halt until after the | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
referendum to allow Scotland is safe. To retain postal services | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
within the public sector... Last night the Finance Secretary spotted | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
problems with such a precise pledge. It is impossible to give a | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
definitive answer. Question today, the First Minister again urged upon | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
us on the seal. We should make every possible endeavour to keep our Royal | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
Mail in public hands. Then a little further. Second, a moratorium and | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
then we will try to bring it back into public hands. Is there a clear | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
commitment from the First Minister to re-nationalise. I emphasise the | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
word renationalise Royal Mail. But the third time, an independent | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
Scottish Government thanks to a decision of the Scottish people will | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
bring the Royal Mail back into public ownership. Cheers and then a | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
row over potential costs. You would have an enormous amount of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
investment to help it compete as well as running costs. You would | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
have to buy it back from shareholders. Nationalists the | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
Labour could stop the sale by matching the offer. Alex Salmond | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
appears to have had no conversations at all with Royal Mail. His aides | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
say this was a strategy designed to wrong-foot his opponents. The future | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
of the Royal Mail in Scotland will be debated on Newsnight Scotland | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
tonight. You're watching Reporting Scotland. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Still to come. Councils say they now have fewer supply teachers on their | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
books, the biggest union says it is a crisis. In sport - how common is | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
the use of illegal steroids in Scottish rugby? | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
We will have a special report. A year from the Celtic manager on his | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
side's defeat in Milan. The first two years of Scottish | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
independence could see a deeper cut in public spending or higher tax | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
increases that even Westminster intends. That is the view of the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
leading authority on government finance, the Institute of Fiscal | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Studies. Our business editor is here. What does the report | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
contained? It looks that spending on taxation and looks ahead at what may | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
be the case if we choose independence from 2016. Spending per | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
head is higher in Scotland. Scots get £111 for every £100 spent in the | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
UK. Much of that is covered by taxation. If you count the revenue | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
from Oil and Gas UK, that revenue has been strong recently but it is | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
in long-term decline. It is very volatile as well. That is why the | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Institute of Fiscal Studies is warning that an independent Scottish | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Government cannot depend on oil and gas revenue to pay for the higher | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
public spending. Public spending in Scotland is more than 10% per head | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK. Incomes are the same and tax | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
revenues are the same. Unless North Sea revenues keep up or get bigger, | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
there will be a big hole in Scotland. The report highlights a | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
forecast which came from the office of budget responsibility which sees | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
oil revenues flowing fast. There will be a shortfall of £2.5 | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
billion. Add to that, if the Office for Budget Responsibility is | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
correct, a further 3.4 billion shortfall if oil and gas revenues | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
come in under what we currently have. That is a 15% cut in spending | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
or tax increases. The Scottish Government says that is only one | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
forecast and it is pessimistic. It says there are more positive | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
scenarios and emphasises the recent figures or Scottish public finances | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
have been better or less bad than the UK as a whole. Thank you very | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
much. Experts recommend that warning labels be put on bags of compost | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
because of the risk of further cases of legionnaires disease. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
There have been five cases linked to compost and August, bringing the | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
number of cases in Scotland over the last five years to 15. Experts say | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
that the risk remains small but further infections are likely. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
The summer may hardly be over but for gardeners it is already time to | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
look ahead for next year. But a bug connected to this activity has | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
claimed two lives and left 12 people seriously ill over the last five | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
years. The Janel is a form of legionnaires disease which is still | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
baffling the experts. -- Legionella. White is still appealing? -- why is | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
it still appealing. Why have all the cases been in Scotland? 15 were in | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
Scotland. Perhaps we have different testing methods here. How is it | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
transmitted? Using compost indoors seems to increase the risk. How does | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
it survive the heat treatment at all compost goes through? Until there | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
are more Anders, a panel of experts recommended that the Scottish | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Government look at warning labels. -- more and servers. When we looked | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
at labelling. We did make a recommendation that the government | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
should examine this. This form of disease is the most common form of | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
legionnaires disease in Australia and New Zealand and the authorities | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
they took steps to make sure that warning labels about good hygiene | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
practices are on the backs of compost. Manufacturers say safe | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
handling instructions are already printed. Legionella is probably here | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
to stay and the public may have to be warned to take precautions. | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Councils across Scotland have told BBC Scotland they now have fewer | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
supply teachers on their books to cover when regular teachers are | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
away. The largest teaching union says it is a crisis. It has been a | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
major issue for a few years since the rate of pay was changed for | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
major issue for a few years since short-term supply teachers. We | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
estimate that over one third of requests are a net. People are not | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
being taught by specialists. No teachers will be available at times. | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
The difficulty arises from the success of increasing teacher | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
employment. Secondly, we did make changes with the union and the local | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
authority employers to conditions to supply teachers are a few years ago | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
with the agreement of the trade unions. We will now revisit that | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
agreement and a revised offer will help alleviate this problem we're it | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
exists. Our educational correspondent is here. How much of | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the problem is this across Scotland? headteachers and liberties | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
can be spending time covering classes. There may not be specialist | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
subject teachers available. In Stirling, there are problems finding | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
supply teachers the home economic 's, physics and maths. Here is one | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
example of what this can mean for children in practice. At this | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
school, there should be eight English teachers but three are away | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
long term. So peoples are not getting enough time with an English | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
teacher that they normally would. There have been attempts to find | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
supply teachers without success. We have got 15 people on our books, in | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
our bank, who are qualified English teachers. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
All 15 of them are deployed either within this authority or in other | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
authorities. Our bank was effectively empty. | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
Is this simply down to the way supply teachers are paid, or are | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
there other factors too? It is certainly a big factor. Supply | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
teachers had been paid far less for the first five days. The proposal is | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
to cut that time down to three days. More new teachers are now getting | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
permanent jobs. Good news in itself. But the consequence means fewer new | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
teachers are available for supply work. All the teachers may have | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
dropped out because of changes to the curriculum. There should be | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
three extra English teachers in South Ayrshire to help at the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
college we saw in the report. Other stories from across Scotland. | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
Police say a sum of money was stolen in the latest raid on a cash machine | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
in the north east. The robbery overnight at a shop in Bieldside in | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Aberdeen is the fourth involving a cash machine since the weekend. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Yesterday, a bank was targeted in the village of New Deer. Police are | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
linking the crimes, but are not commenting on claims the robbers | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
have been using explosives. An elderly motorist had a lucky | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
escape after driving his car into the river Ness this morning. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Emergency services rushed to the scene, after the vehicle crashed | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
through metal railings before careering into the fast flowing | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
Waters. The car mounted a pavement in a busy | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
part of the town. Thankfully, no one else was there. The flow of the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
water is relatively fast but shallow. The car could have been | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
swept downstream. 600 workers are out on strike at the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Alexander Dennis bus factory in Falkirk. Unite Union members | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
rejected a 3.5% pay offer, saying it's below expectations. The | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
company's calling on staff to end their 48-hour stoppage. | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
Councillors and officials from the Western Isles are meeting with their | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
counterparts to hear from both sides in the independence debate. They are | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
hoping to reassure people they can offer the best option for the | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
islands. There are more stories from your | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
area, and all the latest news, 24 hours a day, on BBC Scotland's | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
website. Time now for the sports news. | :17:43. | :17:54. | |
Good evening. It's been claimed at least two | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
players at each of Scotland's top amateur rugby clubs are taking | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
banned substances. The accusation comes from a player from a Scottish | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
National League side. He says he refused steroids offered to him, and | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
decided to speak out after the Melrose player Sam Chalmers was | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
banned for two years. Jane Lewis reports. | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
Rugby is a hard-hitting sport. But recently the Scottish game received | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
a body blow. Steroid use. But, was that a one-off? In an interview with | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
BBC Scotland, another young Scottish player claims not, saying other | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
players are using banned substances. How widespread would you | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
say it is in the lower leagues of Scottish rugby? | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
I would say roughly two people per team on something. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
It could be a fat stripping supplement or box supplement. From | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
penmanship, down two championships. Where is your evidence? People will | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
go off-season, they will bulk up. You hear people chatting. There are | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
tell-tale signs. The Scottish Rugby union has responded to these claims, | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
saying: Why do you think a lot of players | :19:07. | :19:31. | |
will feel the need to do this? It is to bulk up quickly, a quick fix idea | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
because they want to be a professional and get there as | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
quickly as they can. They don't care what they do to their health, they | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
want to be the best. If you see someone who, all of a sudden over | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
six-month changes dramatically, I have no doubt. It might be natural. | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
If the player knows it is going to be a targeted test, then it has to | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
be done. And if there is foundation to these claims, surely that would | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
act as a deterrent? Neil Lennon praised his Celtic side, | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
following their 2-0 defeat in their opening Champions League match away | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
to AC Milan. Despite a good performance, the Scottish champions | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
failed to take their chances. But, with just the one game played, hope | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
remains of reaching the last 16 of the tournament for a second season | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
running. A night which had promised much. | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
This shot deflected into the Celtic net, a hard goal to take after a | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
strong performance from the Scottish champions. For long periods of the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
game we were the better team and we played really good football. We had | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
good chances tonight. That will be the one regret coming away. There | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
was an assuredness about Celtic and this shot hit the target. If the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
free kick had been just a few inches lower... We tried to create chances | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
and get at them, without any intention of sitting back. | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
We showed that in the way we played. If we don't score, then they might | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
do it. Terrible for us. The strike came in the 82nd minute knocking the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
life out of Celtic. Three minutes later, this goal made the game safe. | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
We have got to believe in ourselves for the next match. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
And hopefully get as many points to get through this group. We are here | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
to compete and play well. That next game is at home to Barcelona. | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
Celtic beat them last season and the performance last night will raise | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
hopes that that feat can be repeated. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
The six-time Olympic champion sprint champion Usain Bolt says he'd love | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
to be part of next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Speaking at a book signing for his new autobiography, Faster Than | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Lightning, in London, the Jamaican said his coach will decide whether | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
he takes part. Surely he can make his own mind up! | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
It's 20 years since the Jackie magazine disappeared from the | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
shelves. In its day, it was the biggest selling teen magazine in the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
UK. Now, its once dedicated readers can relive those times, as Jackie | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
The Musical opens in Dundee, the city that was home to the title. | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Andrew Anderson reports. It could be one of the millions of | :22:13. | :22:28. | |
letters sent to the Jackie magazine. But this is a number from Jackie The | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Musical opening tonight in Dundee. Home to the magazine for nearly 30 | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
years. Jackie was the first place many teenage girls turn to for | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
advice on love, fashion and friends. It was there any contact | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
with their peers, no mobile phones, no text thing. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
And just the magazine to find out what other people were thinking. It | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
hit the shelves just as the 60s began to swing, the top teenage | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
magazine for a decade. It launched in 1964. It would run to the next 30 | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
years. At its peak in the mid-1970s, it was selling more than 600,000 | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
copies every week. The new musical features the Jackie agony aunts, | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
although they never actually existed. | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
Many Scottish journalists cut their teeth at the Jackie, including one | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
who shares the magazine 's name. Few people today will have any idea | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
how important it was. It was the bible of every teenage girl. And not | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
only that, but their brothers as well who used to sneak a look at it | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
to get an idea as to how the female psyche worked. In the early 1990s, | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
sales dropped, the Jackie closed. Jackie folded at its most beautiful | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
and bright. No one can say Jackie is not as good | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
as it used to be, that's one reason why we do is look back on it with | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
such fondness. Those who bought their Jackie | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
loyally every week can relive those times over the next couple of weeks | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
as the story is retold on stage. Keepers at Edinburgh Zoo have | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
revealed they've succeeded in achieving the first birth of its | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
kind in the UK. Their female koala is carrying a joey in its pouch, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
after giving birth earlier this summer. The new arrival has been | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
wriggling around, and is expected to poke its head out sometime next | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
month. Meanwhile, the zoo says it's still optimistic that its panda | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
could give birth within the next week. | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Time now for the weather. It is pretty miserable at the moment | :24:46. | :24:59. | |
through central and southern parts of the country after a mucky day. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
The rain cleared away but the legacy was light rain and drizzle from the | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
cloud. There were some brighter spells in the north-west. This | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
evening, the rain and drizzle away slowly. Those high winds across the | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
south West down to the Mull of Kintyre slowly easing down as that | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
centre pulls away to the east is to. As we head towards the rest of this | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
evening, most of that light rain and drizzle will slowly disappear to | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
leave things largely dry overnight. The cloud rebuilds in the North West | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
with a few showers but elsewhere clear skies. Temperatures around | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
eight Celsius but in the countryside it will be colder. Friday, not | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
looking too bad. Better than today, image of high pressure will settle | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
things nicely. Early sunshine in the east of the country. Like rain and | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
drizzle in the West. By mid afternoon, drier and brighter than | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
today with a light south-westerly. Those wins will be strong across the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Hebrides. Cloudy through the Highlands. Sunshine through parts of | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
Murray. Orkney and Shetland, breezy with passing showers. Into the | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
evening, those showers in north-west, the tell end of a | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
weather front. High pressure starts to build across the South at the | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
weekend, settling things down. Low pressure in the Atlantic will feed | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
in a rain band and cloud across the west of the country. Generally dry | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
to start the weekend, some cloud, 16 degrees. Fairly breezy. Sunday, more | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
sunshine for all of us, up to 21 degrees. Rain slowly leaving | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
Shetland. Good news for the next few days. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Now, a reminder of tonight's main news. Police in Edinburgh are | :26:55. | :27:06. | |
investigating four deaths at a care home in the capital. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
A crackdown on pensions that offer poor value to millions of savers has | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
been ordered by the Office of Fair Trading. The watchdog says pensions | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
are so complicated that many employees, and even employers, | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
struggle to understand them. They've also called for a ban on some high | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
charges which eat into the value of people's savings. | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Andy Murray is very unlikely to play again this season, after deciding to | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
undergo minor back surgery. It's an attempt by the Wimbledon champion to | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
clear up a long-standing problem. The UK government has called for a | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
review of whether NHS staff in England should be allowed to wear | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
full-face veils. Ministers say that face coverings can be a barrier to | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
communicating with patients. The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
it's not a matter that should be decided by politicians, but he does | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
understand people's concerns. That's Reporting Scotland. I'll be | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
back with the headlines at 8pm, and the late bulletin just after the ten | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
o'clock news. Until then, from everyone on the team here in Glasgow | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
and around the country, have a very good evening. | :28:02. | :28:03. |